In 2005, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology accepted a
donation of orthodontic patient records from an orthodontist
who has been practicing in the Albuquerque area since the
early 1970’s. This collection represents a ...

We designed an exploratory study to find out what information resources are available to New Mexico health care practitioners not currently affiliated with the University of New Mexico. We conducted semi-structured interviews ...

Knowing when and how to use a particular database or resource can be challenging. This syllabus describes a medical school elective focused on strategies and techniques needed for effectively searching the medical ...

Have you ever found educational material online that you would love to incorporate into your educational activities, but weren’t sure whether you could? Or, have you ever shared your own educational materials, only to see ...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this poster is to compare four journal reading apps currently available for tablets and smartphones. The four apps are BrowZine, Docphin, DocNews, and Read by QxMD. These apps allow users to ...

Most able bodied people are unaware of the daily challenges facing adults with disabilities. People with disabilities comprise a significant portion of the population. These individuals are likely to utilize health care ...

Context: People with disabilities represent a significant portion of the population. A 2007 Institute of Medicine report, “The Future of Disability in America” noted that barriers to equal health care for people with ...

Purpose: To classify public health professionals’ naturally-occurring questions (information needs) during a six-week study period according to the (1) Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) question typology; and (2) the ...

Information literacy has become an essential skill set for all health professionals, particularly due to its central role in evidence-based practice. The purpose of this document is to provide HSC programs with the basic ...

QUESTION:
How does a campus library and IT organization create a single service desk to provide all library and IT public service?
BACKGROUND:
At present, two service desks separately provide the UNM Health Sciences ...

Few institutional governance topics have garnered more attention and verbiage in the past two years as that of data (or information) governance. Thanks partly to the promotion of terms such as big data and eScience, more ...

The NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access requests that publications resulting from NIH-funded research be voluntarily deposited in PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s open access archive of life sciences ...

This panel discussion and workshop will help AMIA members learn the skills necessary to participate in open access publishing, which include understanding the NIH Policy, choosing an optimal publication venue, and managing ...

All Library personnel were assigned a goal of listing three major threats to business continuity of their unit. The goal required each person to describe their responsibility in such an event and to state whether the ...